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Academic Tribes and Territories: Intellectual Enquiry and the Cultures of Disciplines
How do academics perceive themselves and colleagues in their own disciplines, and how do they rate those in other subjects? How closely related are their intellectual tasks and their ways of organizing their professional lives? What are the interconnections between academic cultures and the nature of disciplines? Academic Tribes and Territories maps academic knowledge and explores the diverse characteristics of those who inhabit and cultivate it.
This second edition provides a thorough update to Tony Becher's classic text, first published in 1989, and incorporates research findings and new theoretical perspectives. Fundamental changes in the nature of higher education and in the academic's role are reviewed and their significance for academic cultures is assessed. This edition moves beyond the first edition's focus on elite universities and the research role to examine academic cultures in lower status institutions internationally and to place a new emphasis on issues of gender and ethnicity. This second edition successfully renews a classic in the field of higher education.
This second edition provides a thorough update to Tony Becher's classic text, first published in 1989, and incorporates research findings and new theoretical perspectives. Fundamental changes in the nature of higher education and in the academic's role are reviewed and their significance for academic cultures is assessed. This edition moves beyond the first edition's focus on elite universities and the research role to examine academic cultures in lower status institutions internationally and to place a new emphasis on issues of gender and ethnicity. This second edition successfully renews a classic in the field of higher education.
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First published October 28, 1989
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May 12, 2014
“Disciplines are thus in part identified by the existence of relevant departments but it does not follow that every department represents a discipline,” nor entirely do other insitutational standards (41).
an increase in disciplinary bids across the spectrum, from “fast-moving fields” in the sciences to “more reflective and conservative” humanities (43).
metaphor of “academic tribes and territories,” to quote the title of their thrice reprinted book, to describe the disciplines. This metaphor serves to emphasize a distinction between the people involved in a discipline (the tribe) and the epistemic focus (the territory). By separating the social from the epistemic, Becher and Trowler hope to show how the community can chose to occupy different territories although they are “in practice […] inseparably intertwined” (23).
The metaphor of tribes and territories also gets at metaphor emphasizes that “Boundaries [between disciplines] do no exist merely as lies on a map: the denote territorial possessions that can be encroached on, colonized and reallocated” and “when patriotic feelings within a discipline run high, deviations from the common cultural norms will be penalized (59)
an increase in disciplinary bids across the spectrum, from “fast-moving fields” in the sciences to “more reflective and conservative” humanities (43).
metaphor of “academic tribes and territories,” to quote the title of their thrice reprinted book, to describe the disciplines. This metaphor serves to emphasize a distinction between the people involved in a discipline (the tribe) and the epistemic focus (the territory). By separating the social from the epistemic, Becher and Trowler hope to show how the community can chose to occupy different territories although they are “in practice […] inseparably intertwined” (23).
The metaphor of tribes and territories also gets at metaphor emphasizes that “Boundaries [between disciplines] do no exist merely as lies on a map: the denote territorial possessions that can be encroached on, colonized and reallocated” and “when patriotic feelings within a discipline run high, deviations from the common cultural norms will be penalized (59)
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